Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 101 Part 1.djvu/123

 PUBLIC LAW 100-6—FEB. 12, 1987 '

101 STAT. 93

"(3) The term 'eligible veteran' means a veteran who, at the time of referral to a contract facility— "(A) is being furnished hospital, domiciliary, or nursing home care by the Administrator for a chronic mental illness disability; or "(B) is homeless and has a chronic mental illness disability;or "(C) is a veteran described in section 612(a)(1)(B) of this title and has a chronic mental illness disability. "(b)(1) The Administrator, in furnishing hospital, nursing home, Contracts. and domiciliary care and medical and rehabilitative services under this chapter, may contract for care and treatment and rehabilitative services in halfway houses, therapeutic communities, psychiatric residential treatment centers, and other community-based treatment facilities for eligible veterans suffering from chronic mental illness disabilities. "(2) Before furnishing such care and services to any veteran through a contract facility, the Administrator shall approve (in accordance with criteria which the Administrator shall prescribe by regulation) the quality and effectiveness of the program operated by such facility for the purpose for which such veteran is to be furnished such care and services. "(c) In the case of each eligible veteran provided care and services under this section, the Administrator shall designate a Veterans' Administration health-care employee to provide case management services. "(d) In furnishing care and services under this section, the Administrator shall accord priority for such care and services in the following order: "(1) To any veteran for a service-connected chronic mental illness disability. "(2) To any veteran with a disability rated as serviceconnected. ur "(3J TO any veteran for a non-service-connected disability, if the veteran is unable to defray the expenses of necessary care as determined under section 622(a)(1) of this title. "(e) The Administrator may provide in-kind assistance (through Contracts, the services of Veterans' Administration employees and the sharing of other Veterans' Administration resources) to a contract facility under this section. Any such in-kind assistance shall be provided under a contract between the Veterans' Administration and the contract facility. The Administrator may provide such assistance only for use solely in the furnishing of appropriate services under this section and only if, under such contract, the Veterans' Administration receives reimbursement for the full cost of such assistance, including the cost of services and supplies and normal depreciation and amortization of equipment. Such reimbursement may be made by reduction in the charges to the United States or by payment to the United States. Any funds received through such reimbursement shall be credited to funds allotted to the Veterans' Administration facility that provided the assistance. "(f) Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Reports, section, the Administrator shall submit to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report

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